I have been a 'Buddhist' for several years but this year my practice has kinda disappeared. Having been emotionally (and physically) tested lately by the world, I am trying to build my practice back up so I can deal with some of the anger that I seem to be harboring (or 'Turbocharging' as Firefox's spell checker prompted me with, strangely apt.)

I have spent a bit of time at a Sangha for the Vajrajyan tradition, but the practitioners there were fiercely secular, which is perfectly fine but I am a more spiritual person and needed a deeper connection, which led me to a Plum Village Sangha where I have only been once, but conversed with them online a few times (the guy who set the Sangha up is a good friend.)

I'm definitely not tied to any particular tradition and wish to obtain what I can from any one of them.

Hi, Christian,
Another Aussie!
Actually, there are a few of us here ... and a lot of people from other places too (see map at foot of Home page).
You will find quite a range of viewpoints, too, but most of us are pretty tolerant of differences.

---The trouble is that you think you have time---
---Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe---
---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---

Greetings Christian and welcome to Dhamma Wheel!
I grew up in Sydney - I have fond memories of the place.

“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725

“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725